As farmers dealt with drought and wind in 2020, many were left looking to find any way to scrape up a bushel come harvest time. For those grow…
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KWS (KWS SAAT), a German seed breeding company, is working with Bayer to have a triple herbicide trait, which will be called Truvera.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Knowledge, it is said, is power. When it comes to the foods we eat, it is also an avenue to safety.
Bob Hemesath has used GMO products on his farm near Decorah in Northeast Iowa for close to 20 years.
Negotiations between trade officials from the U.S. and the United Kingdom have begun in the wake of the of Britain's departure from the Europe…
CHATFIELD, Minn. – The push is on to secure enough feed to get the herd through the winter, and for once, the weather is cooperating. The main…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A tiny insect, no bigger than the head of a pin, is threatening to topple the multibillion-dollar citrus industry in the U.S…
For the first time in 15 years, Illinois farmer Steve Ruh will plant only old-school soybean seeds to boost profit in a premium niche market, …
Corn futures ended lower on news from China. “Talk that China may be done buying US soybeans may have offered resistance,” Steve Freed from AD…
The European Court of Justice recently ruled on Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – CRISPR-Cas. It’s a technology that…
FULLERTON, N.D. – Donn Nelson has not harvested a single acre since our visit two weeks ago. The weather has been cool and damp and was highli…
Mercaris, a market data service and online trading platform for organic, non-GMO, and certified agricultural commodities, today releases its a…
For Pete Zimmerman, a Minnesota farmer, the age of gene-edited foods has arrived. While he couldn’t be happier, the hi-tech soybeans he’s now …
It may seem like Judgment Day has come for glyphosate, with a California jury slapping $289 million in damages on Monsanto Co. in a cancer tri…
[L]ately I’ve been very interested in the role of international companies and the Chinese companies in developing and producing new technology…
It’s the end of era at Monsanto Co. after executives including Chief Executive Officer Hugh Grant and the seed giant’s scientific leader, Robb…
Everyone has experienced it at least once in their life – a couple areas in a person’s life just somehow magically become a perfect match. Thi…
Rock Island and Mercer Counties
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – As margins get tighter, farmers are looking for ways to add value to their end products.
The corn market had a very quiet pre-report trading day, said Joe Lardy of CHS Hedging. “The trading range for the whole corn futures curve wa…
Unfounded public fears about the food people eat pose a major challenge for agriculture, a former Tyson Foods, Inc., chief executive officer s…
In the basement of Koshland Hall at the University of California at Berkeley is a trove of seeds with the potential to fix some of agriculture…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is making available for public comment a petition from Verdeca LLC seeking deregulation of soybeans genetically engineered for increased yield. The petition is available for public review and comment for 60 days, starting Nov. 15.
AMES, Iowa — The 2017 Integrated Crop Management Conference, Nov. 29-30 at the Scheman Building in Ames, will consist of 41 workshop topics an…